Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 September 1897 — Page 3

SAVED BY THE MILE.

THE LIEUTENANT'S STORY FIGHT WITH INDIANS.

frisky Had Learned by Experience, and He

Knew

When There Wsui Dancer—Fla

herty Took Command, and He and the Mule Paid Off an Old Score.

About 80 years ago, when there wore T)ut few railways in the western states and territories, the United States mail was carried in saddlebags on what were called .pack inqles. The ride$4were young men, carefully ^elected fqr their Bravery, fearlessness and activity.,'the animals were changed at stations a(3out 25 miles apart, so that they were always in good condition to run if necessity required it, which was often the case, as the country, was swarming with Mexicans and Indians.

Benteen, a brave young Irishman with Indian blood in his veins, was chosen for the road between Camp V., Arizona, and a town on tho border of New Mexico, and for more than a year escaped the snares und treacherous traps that were laid for him. One cold day in February, 1875, when a heavy mist not only made things oheerleBS and gloomy, but threw such a veil over the earth that it was impossible to see any object more than a few feet Rway, Benteen started on his oustomary long ride. When or how the Indians surprised him was never known. His body was found in the entrance of Sunset pass by a squad of cavalry sent from Camp V. riddled with bullets and arrows, and near

It lay three dead Indians, showing that he had Bold his life dearly. The mule galloped into Camp V. two days later and fell exhausted in front of the barracks, with mailbags untouched save by the blood that had flowed from the bullet hole In his side. He was put in a comfortable stall in the cavalry stahles, and, owing to the skill of the veterinary surgeon, in addition to the best of food and care, he soon grew strong and fit for light work. During •his sickness the soldiers became so attached to him that the post quartermaster made an effort and succeeded in buying him.

One year later I had the good fortune to be ordered east on temporary duty in Washington. Though I had been in Arizona but six months, I was heartily tired of that desolate oountry and fully determined to let no obstacle delay me in the trip that was taking me to my native city. We left Camp Y. in an ambulance drawn by four mules. Soon after starting I found that one of the leaders was the pack mule I have mentioned. He had fully recovered, and had been named FriBky by the soldiers on aocount of bis exuberant spirits.

In the ambulance with me was the driver and an old soldier whose name was Flaherty. Behind us was an army wagon paoked with our luggage, rations and forage for the mules. It was guarded by an escorfcof eight privates, with sergeant and corporal. Frisky was as lively as a young kitten and seemed none the worse for the hole in his side. On the fourth day's travel, soon after starting, Frisky began to sniff, prick up his ears and tremble. Flaherty turned toward me, saluted and paid in a half apologetic voice: "Beg pardon forthroublin ye, lootinint, but I think it will be wise to halt a bit and take a look at the counthry. Frisky scints the red men, and you niver can decaive him on thim."

The driver slaekene^l the speed of his team and looked at me for an order to stop. I had been but one year and a half from West Point. I bud quite an opinion of myself and my judgment, wid I thought 1 knew far more of Indians than old Flaherty, who had been in the service nearly 30 years. The mule continued to act like a frightened child, and about noon refused to go by throwing himself on the ground regardless of harness and braying in the 1 loudest tones. The mun tried coaxing, then the whip, but all to no avail. "He spakes tho thruth in his way, lootinint," said Flaherty in what seemed to me a patronizing tone. "We'd better prepare for an attack. I'm an old soldier, sir, and I know phwat an Indian surprise is. It manes throuble. Pardon me, lootinint, for tryin to give me commandin off'cer

orders." I felt very foolish and angry when I found myself obeying Flaherty and stopping my command for the pranks of a mule. I ordered the men to make a barricade of sand and sagebush branches and corralled our mules behind it. In front of them wo put the ambulance and wagon for us to hide behind, so as to keep from the enemy the fact that we numbered only 15-all told. Wo remained in this warlike attitude for nearly an honr. Then, disgusted with what I thought my folly, I gave orders for the mules to be harnessed and our command to move on. The words wore scarcely out of my mouth when, glancing toward the road leading to our left, I saw cloud of sand. I turned to Flaherty, who stood by my

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eying me

reproachfully and sullenly. "What's that?" I asked. "It's the red men that Frisky and I said were ooming, sir. 'Tis the beginnin av the circus."

In a few moments we were surrounded by about 50 hideously painted Indians on their ponies, galloping around us and giving us the full benefit of their warlike yells. Fortumtfely they were not as well armed as wo were. If they had been, our time in this world would have been short. As it was, our men had to fight like tigers. The struggle lasted a little less than an hour. During that time I lived through days. It was all so new, strange and horrible to me. I was but 22 and very much of a boy at that. My youth and inexperience leemcd strangely oiit. of keeping with my attempts to give orders to men who had •pent more than half their lives fighting Indians. So, after giving a few, I turned the plan of battery over to the sergeant and Flaherty. The latter was in his element and showed the greatest courage, coolness and clear headedness I htsve ever seen. After every shot he fired

drummer at Kansas City a few weeks ago who is entitled to the presidency of the Amalgamated Association of Great American Liars, and who will get my vote, even if he has previously aroused my contempt, when be runs for the office. "A crowd of ns were sitting in a hotel lobby there, lying about the business we were doing and the trade we were taking away from our rivals, conscious that each knew that every mother's son of ns was lying by the watch, but happy in the belief that maybe some one in the crowd would accept our statements as true. The eastern man was selling grooers' sundries, such as spice, etc. When he told us that that day he bad sold a carload of nutmegs to a Arm in Sedalia, I looked around the crowd to see how it was going. Every fellow had his lips puckered ready to whistle, but the nutmeg man kept rattling away at such a lively rate that we sat there in silence, transfixed by his magnificent gall. Now, anybody with ordinary sense knows that a carload of nutmegs would glut the market of the entire

W8St

would

call out in slow tones: "Faith, an is it me *ed scalp ye want to illewminate yer wigtvams? Well, take a pace GXcowld lead injthead." "Coom a litthre closer, ye red Snakes. Frisky an me want to pay a debt wc owe ye." And be would fire away deliberately, with sure and deadly aim. Owing to his bravery and that of the other men We came out conquerors.

Tho men lost no time in harnessing the piules, paoking the wagon and moving on. After the last Indian had disappeared Frisky regained his customary spirits and •otivity and was the hero of the hour, for we all appreciated the fact that had it not been for his warning we would have been massacred in the wagons. That night we put 86 miles between us and the battlefield, and save for a slight flesh wound on jny arm and a grazed spot underneath Flaherty's red hair we were none the worn. Soon after I reached Washington I lent Frisky a gold medal. On it was engraved, "For Frisky, the wisest mule that »ver lived." He wore it fastened to the •ollar of his harness until he died.—Our

Animal Friends. THE {SUMMER'S STORY.

Talked About a Carload of Nutmeg* He Had Sold. "Drummers are proverbially great rotttancers," said John A. Goodloe, a Philadelphia commercial traveler. There seems to be something in our mode of life that makes us see and hear things that no other human beings ever thought of before, and »o we oan listen to each other with patience md forbearance when ordinary p«ople won't give us an audience. Of coarse we don't believe half the things we tell each other, especially about our phenomenal sales and growing trade, though each realizes that it is pleasant for the other fellot? «o believe that he is being credited with fcmsh tolling. But I struck an. eastern

for a whole year and

that they could not be disposed of in Sedalia in a lifetime. Still that splendid liar sat there calm and serene and didn't seem to know the magnitude of his own romance."—St. .Louis Republic.

MURDER EASY IN LONDON.

Takes Little Skill to Escape Detection, Though the Police Are Good. Coroners' juries in England are even more comical combinations than similar bodies in the States, and it is believed to be a grievance to one of them when they have to return a verdict that does not permit them to asoribe death to "suicide dur ing temporary insanity." The Thames swarms with barges that are the floating residences of families born and reared in them.

While the bargees are as honest and rep utnble as circumstances permit perhaps, a large proportion of them are low and brutal enough for the committing of any atrocity, and few things would be easier than the murder of a man or woman on one of these bargeB, with comparative certainty that the guilty person or persons would never be brought to book without the aid of a betrayer.

It is only necessary to recall the series ol monstrous murders that gave notoriety to the as yet unapprehended "Jack the Ripper" to understand what superb facilities the alleys and courts, the river and bridges, the wharfs and docks of this glorious old London offer to apprentice cutthroats who have neither the subtlety of tbeDe 'Medici nor the bold skill of the Borgias. Yet tho town is well policed, and the detectives are not all blockheads.—London Cor. Chicago Times-Herald.

TAMING A BUTTERFLY.

Followed His Hjpnotizer About the Room For Three Weeks. The following extraordinary history is told by Mr. Gould and is, says the London Gentlewoman, worth repeating:

On a cool October day, while walking in the park, I saw a large black and orange butterfly apparently dead. I put it in an envelope carefully and took it home, laying it upon the table. Sorae hours after I heard a sort of scratching sound and found that it came from the envelope, out of which I then took the butterfly, quite revived by the warm room and looking most beautiful.

The question then was how to feed it— for I wished to keep it as a pet—and I put some sirup made of white sugar and water in a tiny saucer and gently took the insect by the shoulders, first folding back his wings. Then I took a small needle. and passing the head of it very gently through the curled proboscis slowly unrolled it till the end fell in the sirup.

After ho had had his fill I lot him go, and he polished his fore feet and antenna* and then flew about quite happy. I continued to feed him thus for three days, and on the fourth, when I put out my hand to take him, he flew upon it and at once began to eat of his own acoord.

This went on for about three weeks, and ho became really quite a pet, flying to me and settling on my chest, arms or hands, and if I put him on a table and drew my finger along he would follow it like a bitten, not flying, but marching slowly aftor it, and then when I left the table he would turn his head as knowing as a child or animal.

In three weeks his bright coloring and gloss grew dull, wrinkles appeared on the body and wings, and after eating he was loss particular in

pluming

TERRE HAUTE E LOYALTY TO FAMILY.

himself. Then

his appetite foiled and his strength also. The three days before his death he was constantly in my hand, and there he died.

Religious Tolerance.

The tendenoy has been toward sectarian organization in Christian work. But with this tendenoy has been another, to make the work itself more Christian and less sectarian. Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, do their work by denominational agencies, but the work is undenominational. No longer do Arminians and Calvinists bombard each other from their respective pulpits. A sectarian sermon is rare, even in a Roman Catholic or a high church Episcopal pulpit, and a sermon leveled against another sect is still more rare. The churches are separated, b'ut the doctrine is one. The reader oan easily satisfy himself of the truth of this observation. Let him take up a Monday morning's paper and read the reports of the previous Sunday's sermons and then endeavor, without any acquaintance with the preachers, to determine to what denominations they respectively belong, or, if he have aoquaintance with the preaohera, let him analyze the sermons aBd endeavor to designate to himself the features in any sermon which are characteristically Presbyterian or Congregational or Baptist or Unitarian. Except in the utterances of a few polemical divines, relics of a past age, he will find it difficult so to do. Ministers preach in denominational pulpits, but they proclaim one and the same Christian message.—

Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott in Forum.

He Was Too Critical.

Everybody is familiar with the adverse criticisms passed by shopkeepers on articles not purchased from them. Here is an instance:

A woman had a handeoma Russian sable skin.presented to her, with head and feet in perfect condition. She took it to a furrier to have it made into a boa. The furrier examined it olcsely. •'Beautiful skin, isn't it?" remarked the woman.

Yes," replied the shopman, 'but I don't think you have the right kind of a head on it." •Well," returned, the woman. as it happens to be the kind that God put on it, I think it will stay."—Nfiw York Herald.

Long Lived Composers.

Composers, as a rule, have been remarkably long lived. Handel was 74 years of age when he died Lalande was 76 Bach was 65 years Scarlatti was 66 Hadyn was 77 Palestrina, 70 Spohr, 75 Marcello, 58 Giuck, 73 Paisiello, 75 Rossini, 78 Piccini. 72 Cherubini, 82 Beethoven, 67 Meyerbeer, 70.

Not to Be Matched.

The story was current in the early part of the queea's reign that her majesty onoe asked the Duke of Wellington what kind of boots he was in the habit of wearing. "People oil them Wellingtons, madam." "Hew absurd!" she cried. "Where, I should like to know, will they find a pair of Wellingtons?"

A coord ing to. PI my, the Raman whea* bad ears with lOd grdiis each.

LIVING THE PROVERB THAT "BLOOD MA IS THICKER THAN WATEE?."

Evil Often Comes From Forgetting This Principle—It Is Generally Best to Speak Well of Our Own or to Remain Silent.

Showing Affection.^^^ ^^, ,"-

Quite apart from household love, which is taken for granted in every family, is a certain quality of loyalty which holds kith and kin together. While human nature is what it is we need never expect that people of the same family living together in the intimacy of home will always escape friction and irritation. The very candor and unreserve of home life lead people to speak hastily, put a check upon politeness and have as a result domestic jsri They are to be regretted and even deplored, for it is a strange weakness of human nature which makes possible the seamy side in so many of our closest relationships. Brothers and sisters are very apt not only to see faults in each other, but to speak oi them plainly. Even mothers and daughters do not always live in pefrect amity and agreement, and in the roost affectionate households there will now and then be a little breeze of ill temper or a break In the perfect harmony.

All this, however, may go on and yet may be pardoned if there is a high ideal of loyalty which leads those of one blood to stand firmly for one another in fche face of the world. The old proverb has it that "blood is thicker than water," which, being translated, simply means that those of a family or clan are bound by their relationship to make common cause against all outside disturbers of their peace and to stand firmly together for the one rooftree.

A high ideal of family loyalty will preserve us from ever telling disagreeable family secrets. If there is some member of the household who yields to temptation or whose ways are trying, the rest are bound to conceal his faults so far as they may from those beyond their gates. To speak of the faults of a person's own family or of any member in publio is to do a decidedly ungenerous as well as underbred thing. We ought to maintain the family honor and to defend every one belonging to ns with all the power we possess.

The greatest tenderness should exist in our minds with regard to the Impression our dear ones make on those who know them but slightly. Great injustice is done to children by the thoughtless retailing of their faults to outsiders by persons within the home. I have known an instance in which a young

man

There may, of course, arise occasions when it is necessary to toll the absolute truth about people, even these belonging to us, but ordinarily the mantle of silence and of charity should be thrown over all failings so far as the world outside iftconcerned.

One sometimes sees in a family a queer streak of loyalty toward one member. Sometimes the mother, again the father, again a brother or sister, is the objeot of passionate devotion on the part of all, and whatever tfcis favored one may do he or she is quite safe and may expeot to have the best construction put on everything and the best treatment in the eyes of everybody. Singularly,Jt is not always the sweet and amiable person who is thus selected as the objeot bf loyal love. Ill temper is quite often at a premium in this world, and you will find that the one in the family who really rules is the one whom it is rather unsafe to stir up, because she will make it very uncomfortable for the others if she does not have her own way. This is all wrcng and should not be for a moment tglerated, bnt while homes are what they are we shall find that the most aggressive personality in the family is the one which carries all before it.

Sometimes there is one person in a set of brothers and sisters who seems fated never to get on through some incapacity or eccentricity. While others suoceed, he always slips a little way^fttfk and never is able to secure that safe foothold which means in the end success and substantial advancement. Let the others rally round such a one and help, him to the utmost extent of their ability. The family bond demands this. The family bond demands, too, that every member of the circle shall be insured so far as possible against unkind criticism, that one shall never be ashamed of one's own flesh and blood, that one, on the contrary, shall always to the end of time uphold the family honor.

Should it chancc that some member of the family makes an unfortunate marriage and this happens sometimes—the fact being accomplishod, the wise and judicious way is to adopt the new member into the clan, not making a break, nor holding aloof, nor in any way showing one's distaste for the new relationship. This is a hard doctrine, and many do not accept it. Probably more

family

feuds oeour through

discontent with the new element brought into this connection than in any ether way.

In the spring a young man's fancy Lightly turns to thoughts of love. And this all round fancy may very easily fall upon some girl whom his mother would not have chosen for the youth. The old cry of Rebecca, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth," is repeated over and over again in our modern lives but, after all,.a man chooses his wife for himself and not to please his mother and his sisters, and if he has arrived at full age, and, equally, if a daughter, being of age, decides on a certain man for her husband, both son and daughter must be allowed to act according to individual judgment, and the oOurses they pursue should not be allowed to bring alienation and disoord into the family circle. Mrs. Stowe used to tell of an old deaoon who said that be had assured his wife once for all that he loved her, and therefore there was no need of biB ever repeating it.

We are all bettor for being told over and over again that we are loved by those who are around us, and the hom* in which there is no demonstration, but only ioy reserve and an absenoe of tender words and caresses, is a very desolate place.—Margaret E. Sangster in Christian Herald.

FOR POST MORTEM USE.

Why a Mountaineer Would Not Sell His Crop of Walnuts. As I pulled up out of the steepest part "I

of tie Cumberland mountain road and

PRESS. TUESDAY MORWINFT SEPTEMBER 28.1897

cause I was sure to gain nothing by it. So I submitted. I understand he baa some walnut trees for shle,** I said. "He hain't got any now." 't^ow do you know?" I asked in somo surprise, for the usual mountaineer is not so communicative. "CazeI'm William Skaggs, and I reckon I ought to know what Bill's got. "Ob, I beg your pardon," I hastened to explain. "Of course I did not know who you were. They told me at Gray's Mill laSl night that you had a lot of walnut. ••'Well, they wuz about half right, stranger* but since day before yistiddy things has changed. The Skaggses has had a scrimmage with tbe Hankinse8, and there's likely*fe be war fer tbe next 6lx months or a yflar, Thar's about 46 men on our side to abpqt 50 on t'other side, bnt they air pore white trash livin in hogpens, kinder, while we has places like this," sweeping his band toward bis house and farm, "and we air proud uv ourselves and ain't goin to git below tbe level that we air useter.

That's why tbar ain't no walnut trees fer sale. Every one nv them Hankinses that we air goin to do away with is goin to his last rest in a yaller poplar box, but when a Skaggs has a funeral you'll see him goin down to his last restin place in a walnut coffin. That's what, and them trees uv mine'll furnish the timber. That's why they ain't.fer sale, mister, jist at present." —Washington Star.

,• SOLECISMS OF SPEECH.

A Young Man Who Was Too Frond to Brook Criticism. Two niien stood at Nassau and Fulton streets and watched a dude who was having his shoes polished. A friend of the dude came along and said: "Reginald, why did you not oome last Tuesday, as you promised?" "Ob, I would have went, but I could not," be replied, regardless of grammar.

The taller of the two .men who overbeard the conversation was William A. Eddy, tbe scientific kite flier and inventor. Whose aerial photographs have attracted attention. He smiled and said: "That young man would, I am sure, resent any correction of his grammar. I know how dangerous it is to tamper with one's English." "Did somebody shoot at you for suggesting proper speech?"

"I lost

arriving at full age

has been embarrassed and hindered from securing a good position in business simply through thoughtless speeches mado about him in a somewhat irresponsible ohildhood—made, too, by a member of his own family. A child may pass through a phase of untruthfulness, of jealousy, possibly of dishonesty, and yet outgrow those faults, and, if properly trained and treated, reach a useful manhood, but the fact that his family have bruited his errors far and wide will act very unfavorably in this case.

a valuable assistant by attempt

The inspector changed the style of examination.—Pearson's Weekly.

•-*.» Reward or Punishment. The Sire de Joinville tells lis in his "rtisiriiro de St. Louis" how a certain Brother Yves of the preaching friars once met while crossing a street in Damascus at the time of the sixth crusade an aged wom&tf who (ferried in her right band a boWl of fire and in her left a bottle of wa-

^'Wbere are you going?" asked the Bmther Yves. "I go," said she, "to burn up heaven with the fire and put out hell with the water.. And so I will make an end of both." "And for why will you do this?' asked the friar. ^'Because,' snid dht, "I would that we did good neither for the joys of heaven nor for the fear of hell pain, but purely for the love rft God, who deserves so well of *us and who is able to deliver us from evil. —Fortnightly Review.

Scenery In Bering Sea.

"Sailing southeasterly along the 6horo of that haunt of the walrus and polar bear —St Matthew's island in the Bering sea," said a navigator of those waters, "one is impressed by the mingling of the grotesque and tho terrible in the character of tbe scenery. The northwest point of the island is split up into a collection of large rocks of

most

WOHr

drove along the bench of the mountain, one,

with a beautiful view off down the valley, I stopped a moment to gaze upon tbe loveliness of nature and to breathe in deep drafts of the Invigorating mountain air.

At a turn into a little recessed vale under the crag stood a vine olad cabin much better in appearance than any I had seen since crossing over to tbe Tennessee side of the mountain. About It was a thrifty little mountain far us. and on the wood pile in front sot a soiwun specimen of the male mountaineer. "Good morning^- 1 said. "Can you tell me where Wiihaw Skaggs livee?" "What do yen want uv him, stranger?" be replied.

There was BO.weeof oontending a point on the tjfet «a noneaf liis basiDCSS 1®' 1

WAITED/WITH^ MRV SKOGAS^BE-

fantastic shapes. Houses,

spires, cathedrals and figures of men and beasts are some of the forms assumed by these volcanic fragments, which, rising black above the white, seething foam of the sea that breaks against their base give a weird aspect to the grim and desolate region. One rock resembling a large saddle suggested to me the thought that some antediluvian giant might in his time have straddled it and perhaps fished for reptilia over the beetling cliffs which it surmounts."—Nsw iork Sun.

Couapanion^

TRAMPS OF THE SEA.

STRUGGLE OF CARGO 80ATS AMERICAN GRAIN.

ing to make a correction in his mode of expressing himself. He was in my laboratory in Bayonne, N. J., helping me to con'struot a tailless kite, when he remarked that he would hand me 'them' things. With a gentle, falling inflection of tbe voice I said, 'Robert, do not say "them" things, but "those" things.' His patrician ire was aroused, and, facing me as if he intended to fight, he gritted his teeth and carry all but a small part of the ocean almost hissed: 'I will give you'to under- commerce of the world, but they are owned stand that I oome from a fine family, one largely by the {flreat middle class of Engi.

of the best in Jersey, and, blank it, sir, you have no right to correct my grammar!' With that lie gave up his job and walked out."

What is the moral?" "It is that it is happier by far to put one's Dride and family tbove any solecisms or defections of speech."—New York Commercial

The Correct Answer.

"Now, my little man," said the school Inspector, endeavoring to instill confidence into the boys by smiling benignly on them, "I want to see if you understand something about grammar. I want you to describe me, using a noun and an adjective. Now, what am I?"

The boys made abort work of that question. "A big man," was the reply of two or thiee at once, and the whole class looked at eaoh other, and then, with some appearanoe of contempt, at the inspeotor, as if to say that it would take a lot of that sort of thing to floor them. "Very good," said the inspector, pleased at the ready answer. "But what else? There is something more. Another adjective."

This was a poser, bni after some thinking a very small boy jumped up in redbot haste in order to be first with the correct reply. "Please, sir, I know," he exclaimed. "You area big, ugly man."

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FOR

From All Parte of the World Tramp Steamer* Head For United States Ports, lively Competition For the Carrying

Trade—Most of the Boats Are British.

Ocean tramps, as the craft that sail from port to port picking up cargoes wherever they can are called, are hurrying to America now to help carry grain from this country to Europe. Seme of the ships are Italian, others of them are German, more of them Norwegian, but the greatest number, wherever they are bound, fly the flag of England. British tramps carry the greater part of her' commerce and have made England the mistress of the seas.

It has been said that wbe*e you find the largest number of these tramps you will find the greatest prosperity, for the British shipowner, or "managing owner," can oatob soent of a profitable cargo more qutckly than a beagle can pick up a rabbit's trail, and it is because of this that orders have gone out from the dingy counting rooms of London, Liverpool, Glasgow and Newoastle-on-Tyne to all parts of the world telling the skippers to drop all else and get to the American seaboard as soon as possible. Here ships are wanted badly to take grain to Europe. In consequence there has been for the past month and will continue to be an almost unprecedented movement toward this country of tramps, the "little cargo boats" of which Kipling sings so much. It is calculated that at present there are 25 per cent more tramps in American ports than there usually are at this season, and with the rush that has begun overseas this percentage will be increased largf ly before another month has passed. Only a small number of these steamers are coming to New York for cargoes. The majority of them are bound for Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk and New Orleans, but wherever they go it is the grain they are after. Some of them have charters beforo they leave their sailing port, more of them will find charters waiting for tbem when they arrive, and many are coming on a "spec," trusting to find a cargo when they get here. As about 5,000,000 bushels of grain of all kinds are being exported from tbe seaboard each week, there is a good show for all of them.

The tramp type of the ocean steamer, which is rapidly driving the sailing ships from the seas, is in a sense a peculiarly British institution. Although other nations have adopted the type and furnish at times a sharp rivalry for the Englishmen, the vast majority of cargo boats fly the British flae. They are particularly dear to the British heart, for not only do they

land, "by 'widows and orphans. There is scarcely a village in England where there is not 6ome family whose inoome comes from a tramp steamer. There are some large corporations that own fleets of steamers, but most of these are made up of persons not wealthy, who invest their savings in the £1 shares and feel rich when they realize 3 per cent on their money.

Bnt a larger part of tbe steamers have a "managing owner" and a number of other part owners who have shares in tjiem. Sometimes a sharp shipping agent decides to build a steamer. He puts some money into it, he gets a number of others to put their money into it, and he takes the job of managing owner, whereby he receives not only his share of the profits of the vessel, but gets a commission on all the charters he procures. This makes a very good job for him, and the English stockholder, content with small interest, is happy if his ship receives but a little money

Most of the tramp ships are built on the

east coast of England. Newcastle is a

great

seat of this industry. The ships are

for her dimensions. He wants a ship that

steamer has been improved very mfich in

the last few years. Formerly a 1,600 tonner was a very big tramp, and the average size was nearer 1,000 tons than 1,200, but the newer steamers are much larger, and a 4,000 ton tramp is not nncommon, while one of 2,500 is to be met with in any port.

It is not likely that the enormous movement of grain from this country to Europe will result in any very material rise of freights. Freights bid fair to remain firm, and shipping men say the great number of ships that are hurrying hither to get a share of the grain will tend to prevent any increase. Moreover, in the carrying of grain a formidable rival to the tramps has arisen within the last few years. This is tbe great oargo passenger ship of the regular companies, of which the huge Pennsylvania of the

Good Hint.

Although it has been said then puns tielong to the lowest order of wit, there are occasions when a well timed pun serves an excellent purpose.

One of these oocasions was improved a good many years ago by a Boston man, honored and beloved by aU who knew him It was at the centennial anniyersaiy of thi

It WES ftl tllO tCUWUUia* UUOUW W tne "tea party," which was held in Fan- country.—New York Sun

1% jvoman's Privilege. Greene—Funny about my wife. Shenas been running on dreadfoHy about Will Stanyun, and only a day or two ago she declared Will was a regular tramp.

Grey—That's all right. A woman, yon know, is hardly ever able to remember whaVs trumps.—Boston Transcript,

The United States leads all the world, except the British empire, in the total of all kinds of sailing craft,^But is closely pressed by Norway, the figures being: United Stated, 2,526 vessels, of 1,829,26® twnp, und Norway, *,864 vessels, of 1,148,984 toss.

Hamburg-American

lino is

a striking example. Each of these ships, with their enormouB carrying capacity, can do the work of two or three ordinary boats. The greater part of the grain taken from this port will go over in them. In addition to these the big new tramp steamers already referred to, with their large carrying capacity, help to keep down the freights even at a time when there is a strong demand for ships.

A large part of the tramps now headed for this country, many of which have never been here before, are coming from the Black sta and S§uth Amorioa grain trade. In Russia and Argentina advices have been received that the exports of wheat from those countries will be below the normal, and the prospects of tremendously increased exports from this country have made the owners and agents send their ships here. Many of them are ooming in ballast. The great rush a few weeks ago to get in stuff before the new tariff law went into effect has resulted in a decided I falling off for the present of the incoming I carrying trade.

Most of the ships that have not been assured of char Kirs before they left their sailing port make for the Delaware breakwater or Hampton Roads to wait for orders. From those places they are sent to Galveston, New Orleans, Norfolk or wherever else cargoes are waiting for them.

A glance at The Maritime Register shows that many tramps are on their way to America from all parts of the world, and a great majority of them will carry grain away. The last few years have not been particularly prosperous ones for the British shipowners, but now things are getting better, and they are going to have a chance to share in the prosperity of this

_fl v. )niibtdd not the other spe&kers Ionian A very curious fact about the philosophy

noticed said he, with the utmost of handwriting is this—that a man never DOXICCU) „I ATAAt fchf BAmfi

hort epou

wri't^'his

t."—Youth's

name'twice in exactly the same

y, or, in other words, one signature is

never a

facsimile of any other. So that if

never a facsimile of any other. So that if an expert finds among some genuine signatures one that corresponds in every detail with a disputed signature—and such a thing has happened several times—he is absolutely certain, first, that the latter really Is bogus, and, second, that he has before him tbe very model used by the forger All detectivcs of the ink pot agree that tbe discovery that two signatures on being superimposed and held to tbe light are identical is a conclusive proof that thero has been tracing.

Such are tbe leading* principles of tbe expert's profession. How are they applied? In some cases they are not applied at all. The paper itself, the stomp, if there is one, may proclaim a document to bo a forgery. Then t^e xaioroaoope.acd oUier agplianpea

will sometime* show whether a signature is fraudulent. Swindlers commonly write a name in pencil and then ink it over. If the expert baa risaaon to believe that tbli method has b®ets adopted—and it is not difficult to detect, because, for one thing, the signature lt^ks duller than the other writing—he has only to put a drop of acid on the letters, and, presto 1 the ink dlsappears, revealing the glistening plumbago, beneath. But it is practically impossible to obtain by any mode of tracing a sign manual that will successfully bear the closest scrutiny. In following the model, whether that be a facsimile in fiencll oi carbon or a genuine signatnre held to the light, the pen hesitates, giving the WJ^ ing a zigzag appearance, which, altbou^R not visible to tbe naked eye, oan be clearly seen with the aid of tbe microscope. The, most useful ally of the expert, however, i£•.,* the camera, wbioh has no equal for show-^ ing signs of erasure, correction end pen hesitancy.

In one way or another, then, a Document may be pronounced a foTgery without any comparison of writing. Rarely is this so when the work of a realty accom-.• plished professional penman comes to hand. He generally practices a signatnre till ho can Imitate it closely enough to deceive any bank cashier, when he dashes It off at the foot of a oheck with greater fluency perhaps than could its owner. In this art Jim the Penman was an adept— the greatest adept in the annals of crime. No tracing

bing

boggling for him.no rub

out

or touching up. He wrote at once

exactly what was wanted, imitating the most difficult hand with a freedom, an ease and a perfection that were marvelous.Cassell's Journal.

Mr. Hogg's Quiet Joke.

.Mr. Hogg seem8 to imagine that mankind are prepared to believe anything in respect to dogs which partakes of the mysterious and accordingly plays off the following quiet joke upon his readers, says Our Dumb Animals: "It's a good sign of a dog when his face grows like his master's. It's proof he's aye glow'ring up in his master's e'en to discover what he's thinkin on, and then, without word or wave of command, to bo aff to execute the wull o' his silent thocht, whether it be to wean sheep or to run doon deer. Hector got so like roe, afore he dee'd that I remember, when I was owre lazy to gang to the kirk, I used to send him to take my place in the pew, and the minister never kent the diffe:£Jico. Indeed ho once asked me next day what I thocht of tho sermon, for he saw me wonderfu' attentive amang a rather sleepy congregation. "Hector and me gied ane anither sic a

look, and I was feared Mr. Paton would have observed it, but he was a simple, primitive, unsuspeoting old man, a very Nathaniel without guile, and he jaloused nothin, though both Hector and me was like to split, and tbe dog, after laughiti in bis sleeve for mair than a hundred yards, couldn't stand it nae longer, but I was obliged to loup awa owre a hedge into I a potato field, pretendin to scent partridges." ______

Tlolet Perfume.

It would appear as if the cultivation of the violet for its perfume alone will shortly be numbered with the things of tha past. Violet perfume is now produced by chemical means, and the result quite supersedes and surpasses, it is said, in quality and persistency, the flower itself. This latest discovery in chemistry has been made by two Germans in Leipsic, and the importance of it may be measured by the fact that many thousands of pounds have been offered for the patent. Already this substance has been sold at a considerable reduction upon the cost of tho peifuino made from real violets, and so intense is the odor in

its

aga

f()r

those actually

end of the world to the other at nine or flowers, they are of sufficent importance to ten knots an hour. The type of tramp

great

tate.—New

concentration that the man

ufacturers sell only 10 per cent solutions

This 10 per cent solution has to be

in diluted a hundredfold before it is fit

not built for show or beauty. What the violets is not, we are told, the only inshipowner wonts is the cheapest possible gtjmce in which chemical scicnce as apsteamer with the largest carrying capacity iie(i

to the public. The perfume of

perfumery has triumphed, and

ti,nugh

will burn not more than 15 or 20 tons of perfU3Ues are not so remarkable in their coal a day and can jog along' from one gjmilitude to

some of the other chemically mad«»

extracted from

ly limit the use of flowers they imfc

York Ledger.

Frederick the Great's Monument. The magnificent monument to Frederick the Great which adorns the space between the palace of old Emperor William and the University of Berlin furnishes a striking illustration of the radical difference between a constitutional and a military government. The monument I refer to is one of the grandest equestrian compositions in the world, made by the foremost sculptor of his day, paid for by a grateful population and commemorating a monarch not only glorious as a soldier, but also as the patron of art and letters. This monument, as every American tourist knows, is supposed to bring together all the great men who lived under this king, something after the manner of the Albert memorial in London.

Among the dozen who crowd in effigy about the base of this statye I could discover but two whose profession was not exclusively that of killing their fellow man. These two were Kant and Lessing, the only names in the whole crowd thatr would today be generally known among fairly educated people.—Harper's Weekly.

In Japan.

When her majesty the empress of Japar. drives out, no one is permitted to look at her from the windows or chinks in the doors or any part of the house, but all must 6it down by the sido of the street througn which she passes. Each person must doff hat or cap as she passes, except the women in European dress, whose brads may remain covered. No one may speak or follow tbe carriage, and no noise of any kind is allowed on the streets through which she passes.

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Sheep For the Klondike.

Representative F. N. Jones of Bakeoven, Wasco county. Or., who is the owner of numerous flocks of sheep, proposes to take 8,000 of his strong limbed wetherB to Dyea, and from that point use them to pack supplies into the geld camps. His ideals to have pack saddles made for the wethers and load them with 3® pounds of freight, one-half to carry oats for their own feed, the remainder such light merchandise as may offer. He says nil that will be necessary is to point the wethers on the snow, and they will scurry across the oountry in good time. The merchandise will bring in J9,000 freight money, and the 2,000 sheep, on reaching Daw son, can be sold for $10 a bead, so If thti scheme is successful a nice pile of money can be made.—Oregonian.

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